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Munich High End 2017 – Headphones & Personal Audio
|Most Promising Newcomers Abyss Diana planar Ever since launching its superb-sounding but also large and unorthodox-looking AB-1266 planar magnetic headphone, the Abyss team has had a vision of creating a smaller, lighter, somewhat less expensive, ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Interviews Jude Mansilla of Head-Fi and Ethan Opolion of CanJam Global - Part 1
|Head-Fi is without a doubt the largest online community of headphone and personal audio enthusiasts in the world, while CanJam Global is an organisation that, under the auspices of Head-Fi, produces an international series of ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Interviews Jude Mansilla of Head-Fi and Ethan Opolion of CanJam Global - Part 2
|Head-Fi is without a doubt the largest online community of headphone and personal audio enthusiasts in the world, while CanJam Global is an organisation that, under the auspices of Head-Fi, produces an international series of ...read more -
Westone Laboratories W80 universal-fit earphone
|Long-term Hi-Fi+ readers will know that Westone Laboratories, a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based firm, is a quiet giant in the world of hearing and music-related in-ear devices and technologies. With good reason the company’s slogan is, ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 4
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 –Part 3
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 2
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 1
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
Noble Katana Universal-Fit and Custom-Fit In-Ear Monitors
|Over the years Hi-Fi+ has covered a number of multi-driver-equipped, custom-fit in-ear monitors (CIEMs) from Noble Audio, including the then flagship Kaiser 10 (issue 119), the 4S (issue 127), and the Savant (issue 137). The ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Earphones and Custom-fit In-ear Monitors
|Value-Priced Earphone of the Year 1More E1001 Triple-Driver The value end of the earphone market is hotly contested, but 1More’s flagship E1001 Triple-Driver has more than made a space for itself. The design employs a ...read more -
Headroom Show 2017
|Metropolis Studios in West London is one of the last great recording studios in the British capital, and in the early months of the year it is home for a weekend to the Headroom Show, ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 3
|This is Part 3 of Hi-Fi+’s three-part photo-essay covering the recent CanJam NYC event. Noble At CanJam London 2016, Noble Audio introduced its Katana universal-fit earphones and CIEMs to favourable critical response. In fact, Hi-Fi+ ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 2
|This is Part 2 of Hi-Fi+’s three-part photo-essay covering the recent CanJam NYC event. Dekoni Dekoni is a firm I met for the first time at CanJam NYC and whose mission is to offer extremely ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 1
|On the weekend of 4-5 February 2017, Hi-Fi+ was pleased to attend the first ever CanJam event held in New York City, and what an event it proved to be. Held in the Marriott Marquis ...read more -
Chris Martens’ Best of CES 2017: Personal Audio
|In a break with past practice, where Hi-Fi+ coverage efforts at CES and other shows have been both exhaustive and, to be honest, exhausting (as is, “Man, that’s a lot of gear to cover in ...read more